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Posted on 07/23/2018 2:16:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
In one of the more stunning revelations contained in the report compiled by the Justice Department’s watchdog, former FBI Director James Comey claimed he doesn’t remember the moment he decided – and put down in writing -- that Hillary Clinton had committed crimes.
We know that on or about May 2, 2016, Comey composed a statement summarizing Clinton’s mishandling of classified documents, concluding that she was “grossly negligent.” Those pivotal words have a distinct legal meaning, and are drawn directly from a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 793(f), which makes it a felony to handle classified documents in a “grossly negligent” manner.
Comey used the exact phrase not once, but twice.
Based on Comey’s finding, Clinton should have faced a multiple-count criminal indictment, since the FBI discovered that she had stored 110 classified emails on her unauthorized, private computer server. Other people had been prosecuted for similar conduct that jeopardized national security in violation of the law. Yet, Comey – despite characterizing Clinton’s actions with the clear language denoting violation of the law - saw to it that no charges were ever brought against Clinton.
Under questioning, Comey admitted to the Inspector General Michael Horowitz that he authored the May 2 statement and penned every word of it himself. But then he offered the implausible claim that “he did not recall that his original draft used the term 'gross negligence,' and did not recall discussions about that issue.”
Comey’s amnesia is preposterous. He would have us believe that, as FBI director, he memorialized in print his decision that the leading candidate for president of the United States had committed crimes, yet later could not recollect anything about the most important decision of his career.
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They love that.
To these liberal totalitarians-in-waiting, there's no finer thing than to tell bald-faced lies on national television, knowing that you're absolutely safe doing so and that there's the people who know you're lying can do about it, that they just have to take it. That's a real macho show of power, in their way of thinking.
We need a real life Mitch Rapp to make some people disappear.
Queue up the “preaching to the choir” and “Obama middle-fingers America” photos.
Exactly, and from the looks of Strzok in the hearing he gets his jollies off on it.
Comey needs to be jailed for contempt until such a time as his memory returns and he’s able to answer some questions honestly.
Sessions? Still hiding under a rock? Still in his Keebler coma? When’s the last time that feckless fool made any kind of public statement?
So here we are....just before the election...
Comey says something has come up...and says...but it amounts to nothing. He does NOT promise to come back. He has OFFICIALLY closed the case....
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Was james comey in the process of shaking down hillary clinton for money and / or power? Is this how the deep state works internally?
More likely he thought his life expectancy would plummet if he didn’t get her off.
If Comey and the rest of them had done the RIGHT thing and indicted Hillary for her obvious crimes that come with evidence, perhaps Comey and the rest of them wouldn’t be in the pickle that they put themselves in by contorting themselves into corkscrews to protect her.
Bkmrk
federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 793(f)
“”””””More likely he thought his life expectancy would plummet if he didn’t get her off.”””””””””””””””””
Did you read that closely before you hit send??????
It made me puke.
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I had no difficulties interpreting the statement in the criminal justice sense.
(Is anything wrong with interpreting it exclusively in that way at first reading?)
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